Susan Homer
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Artwork
Ginger Cookies, 2008, Oil on canvas, 14 x 12 inches
In the Darkness, 2005, Oil on canvas, 60x 56 inches
In the Darkness, detail
Blackberries with Tea and Milk, 2008, Oil on canvas, 11 x 14 inches
Gray Garden, 2005, Oil on canvas, 60 x 54 inches
Susan
Homer
Artist's Statement
In To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf’s main character, Mrs. Ramsey, pauses at the threshold of her dining room after dinner. She looks back, and as she passes through the door, realizes that the present has become the past. My paintings are thresholds of a similar nature. At one level, as I finish a piece, it literally becomes a record of my past action. On another, the subjects I have chosen to paint are records of a different sort. The china and linens were my grandmother’s; the flowers and birds are often from my Brooklyn garden but remind me of Massachusetts, where I grew up; and the patterns recall the wallpapers and fabrics that decorated my childhood home. My love of what I paint and my reasons for painting it have not wavered over time. Within the patterns of daily life and the process of painting, I find constancy. Yet it is the gentle upheavals in both that are at the heart of my work.
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Selected Exhibitions
2009: Slippery When Wet, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY; Neo-Rococo ShowThe Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
2008: Back to the Garden, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY; The Travelers Return (solo exhibition), Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2007: Radius, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY; Pillow Talk: Small Comforts in Hard Times, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006: Garden Paradise, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York, NY
2005: Susan Homer: A Bird’s Tale (solo exhibition), Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2003: Paper 2003, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2002: Love Shack, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY; Baker’s Dozen, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA
2000: Outer Boroughs, White Columns, New York, NY
Collections
Bowdoin College Museum of Art; The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C.
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